By Annmarie Timmins
The Concord Monitor
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A Manchester man sprinted from Concord police officers Friday ... right into the Merrimack County Superior Court. Word is Benjamin Carter didn’t know it was a courthouse until he ran into a half- dozen sheriff deputies, the police said.
The Concord police got a call about 9:30 a.m. Friday from someone alerting them that Carter, a 20-year-old wanted on a warrant for simple assault, could be found at the Cumberland Farms on North Main Street. By the time Officers Mark Hassapes and Dan Reilly arrived at the store, Carter had left on foot, according to a police report.
But he hadn’t gotten far.
Relying on a description from the caller, the officers spotted Carter across the road on Court Street. According to the police report, Carter ignored their efforts to speak with him and pulled away when Reilly told him he was under arrest and attempted to handcuff him.
When Carter began to run across the court’s parking lot, the officers pursued him. At one point, Reilly slammed to the pavement trying to grab Carter, the police report said. The chase quickly came to anwhen Carter ran in the front door of the courthouse and found himself surrounded by sheriff deputies.
Sheriff Scott Hilliard said Carter didn’t realize what sort of building he had entered until he saw all the uniforms.
It took several deputies and the police officers to get Carter into handcuffs, the police report said. Carter was charged with two counts of resisting arrest and simple assault for a May assault, the report said.
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